Coming attractions slide promoting a screening of the 1936 film Showboat: Museum Object and Cultural History
Coming attractions slide promoting a screening of the 1936 film Showboat: date made: 1936. maker: Consolidated Film Industries. Object Name: slide, glass.
The object in the museum catalogue
Glass coming attractions slide advertising a screening of the 1936 motion picture Showboat. The film adaptation of the musical starred Irene Dunne, Allane Jones, and Charles Winniger. The hand-colored slide, made by Consolidated Film Industries, Inc., was used at the Dayton Theater in Dayton, Ohio.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1936
- maker: Consolidated Film Industries
- Object Name: slide, glass
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Physical Description: ink (overall material)
- Physical Description: glass (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 3 1/4 in x 4 in; 8.255 cm x 10.16 cm
- place made: United States: New Jersey, Fort Lee
- used: United States: Ohio, Dayton
- general subject association: Theater
- associated subject: Movie
- associated subject: Motion Pictures
- ID Number: 1984.0459.07
- accession number: 1984.0459
- catalog number: 1984.0459.07
- Credit Line: Robert Gordan
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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